@@HunterslammerBut I love getting glorified microwave ready meals that have been sitting in a mailvan/post office for days! It's not like making your own meals is cheaper, healthier and tastier!
Just kind of ironic that they do the same shit they accuse others of doing! "Those other guys aren't honest but let's sell you some frozen TV dinners while we talk trash about talk therapy!" This is almost as bad as when I saw gamer RUclipsrs crapping on bad games while being sponsored by Raid Shadow Legends!
The thing is lifting those weights on his own does act make him stronger. He seems to have good form. As long as he isn't compensating in a way that will ultimately hurt him, struggling on his own makes him stronger than if someone took the load off.
@@Didleeios88yea, but to further the analogy, life doesn’t make sure you can lift a weight before giving you one. So you’ll end up hurting yourself if you’re not ready and trained how to lift. Then that injury just makes it harder to lift weights in the future, an end less cycle until you ask someone to help.
I agree with you entirely. If someone is not lifting the weight correctly they do indeed need some support/education. At the same time I think we live in a generation where people believe the solution is for someone else to lift the weight for them. This does not allow us to get stronger. Sometimes even the struggle to figure out how to lift the weight is more valueable then being told how. The truth is that rather than "help" from strangers in an app (or even the therapist couch), we need empathy from real people in our lives with whom we have real two-way relationships@@Zack-bl2gg
@@Didleeios88naw brother that's the issue. You can't get stronger if you can't lift the weight properly. Think of actual therapy like a personal trainer. Its there to spot ya when you need it and point out when your form is lacking or dangerous. Could you achieve the same results yourself? Yeah over time it's possible. Is it easier and safer with a personal trainer (real therapist)? Hell yeah. Just because something is harder doesn't mean it's better.
You crossed the line from insightful gags to public service announcement. How that company is allowed to exist and advertise on CERTAIN platforms, I have no idea. My most sincere thanks for sharing.
It's allowed to exist because people aren't allowed to kill DA VIBE in reality. People use those services because either they are alone physically, or get accused of bEinG nEgAtiVe when they need to vent to their FrIEnDs. I'm looking forward to "If friendships were honest" 😂
@SomebodyHadToSayTh4tAarrooo, I’m sorry for that yes that’s how I genuinely reacted. I know you will probably think me weird, want to talk to me as if I’m a stupid stray dog, or in the most extreme want to banish me from society or send me to a animal shelter or school. What is your completely honest reaction and if you want to address me as a dog go ahead, I’m curious about what that would feel like from a stranger. ❤
If they headquarter in a country that does not follow or have mental health regulations, then they are essentially unprosecutable under any criminal statues... Civil statues, on the other hand, are always fair game.
I fell down the Tiktok rabbit hole that made me think I have ADHD or something else, but really I was just lazy. I can tell because what I've been struggling with before I can do now, I jut got around to building my self discipline (finally). It really should be illegal to share misinformation like that
@@katechasteto be fair, you could also be masking or found your own ways of dealing with a disability. You know, like most people have done throughout history before we knew about the existence of neurodivergent people.
Yea, I find it annoying angsty people on the internet are self-diagnosing themselves with these things and misrepresenting them. I have a friend whose wife uses ADHD as an excuse for her bad behavior all the time and it just infuriates me that he falls for it every time… 🙃
I agree. What little I could see at the start of this video looked pretty sad, and it's never good to microwave your food. On top of that, I found out by doing a little online research that Factor meals are $15 each at the CHEAPEST. Absolutely absurd.
Lmao every one of those meal service plans are a joke/scam. The ONLY people who can afford ANY of them are people with more than middle-class incomes who already spend over 100$ a week on food. A WEEK, NOT MONTH, A FKING WEEK. Like, Chef's Plate and Hello Fresh are hilariously fking awful for cost. I, being poor like I am, originally thought these would be options for me. NO, OF COURSE THESE ARE FOR RICH LAZY PEOPLE. 😆 What WAS I thinking... Hello Fresh, for example, is 1-5 MEALS a WEEK, so not a full week's worth of food, it's like 1 meal a day for 5 days, or even less, if you are indeed feeding the minimum 2 people. If not, then you have double portions so there's some leftovers to stretch I guess... But it's still not a full week of food. BUT THE PRICES? For the "first box" with that "first" discount, you can get a box as cheap as like maybe 30$ Canadian before tax and shipping - but you pay PER WEEK and the very next box would be full price at like 70-100$ (before shipping and taxes, CAD). If you actually add that up, even at the cheapest non-discounted price, that's STILL 60$ x 4 (so 240$ a month on food - double the standard budget for a 1-2 person adult household). It's not only not affordable, it's providing LESS goods for the cost of DOUBLE what you'd have paid just going shopping at the grocery store 1-2x a month. For one week of food (that will likely last into the next week) it's less than 50$ for me and my partner. That's our eggs, bread, butter if needed, veggies, fruits (fresh or frozen for either of these) and a couple other things like rice or pastas. I've gotten us by on 25$ for the week before, that's not so hard to do if you're not buying super expensive fresh ingredients. At NO POINT would I consider it a valuable use of my money to be buying a box service that's going to cost me DOUBLE the national household budget for groceries FOR A FAMILY WITH AT LEAST ONE CHILD IN IT for PORTIONED food packets that can't even be stretched or used variably? For that kind of money, just go get the actual full products and have more than 5 meals a week. :|
@@bakaichigo ok I get that, but I don't think they're market is toward low income, it's toward the people that are too busy to go to the store, they're actually a decent option for the work from homers/Content Creators.
Finally someone on RUclips talks about how awful BetterHelp is! And they didn’t even cover everything. I’m really disappointed in the RUclipsrs who take their sponsorships
Unfortunately when it comes down to it, most youtubers can't afford to say no to every sponsor that is bad. It's either they accept sponsorships from companies like this or Raid, or they can't afford to pay their bills. Particularly with how bad youtube's monetization policies have gotten over the years. And let's face it, there's very few companies in the world that aren't shady once you look into them. If they advertise something good about themselves, or how they're doing something for the people, they're just doing it to draw more people in and not because they actually care about the well being of their consumers, and most are going to be doing something far worse behind the scenes that the average consumer will never know about unless they really go out of their way to dig into it.
@@merevel436 yeah, I know Cinema Therapy (of all people) had stopped and then “did their own research” by listening to other RUclipsrs sponsored by BH saying that BH wasn’t bad and then decided to send out a statement saying they would continue to be sponsored by them
For anyone who hasn't already heard: The whole expression "pulling oneself up by one's bootstraps" seems to have originated with a story about a man being inconvenienced by a stone wall across his land or something, and the newspaper writer joked about how the people building the wall must imagine he will pull himself up by the straps of his boots (that is, _lift himself into the air_ ) in order to cross this wall when needed. It was not a phrase for "get a grip", it was a phrase for "being expected to do something literally impossible". I may be slightly off on some of the exact details, but that was the gist of it.
Yup, it was originally meant to be something that's impossible to do. So, whenever someone says that to you, you can say "Ah, so you want me to levitate! Very interesting..."
Whatever the origin, the modern meaning isn't to "get a grip" or "do something impossible." It means to take personal responsibility for your life. To exhaust all of your effort and resources trying to fix your own problems, before deciding that it's hopeless and asking for help. If you give up too quickly, then you will never know what you are truly capable of.
Yes for a long time this was meant as a joke, describing someone who said they did it All on their own, especially the children if the wealthy thinking they were self made men. I think it is stupid people reading it and not realizing that it was meant to be ironic caused it to actually become what it is today. Words do change meanings.
@@jakeviolet2195 I think you mean it means to do something literally impossible, like levitate. Because that is what those words imply by definition. People are not immune to their material condition, and denying people help because they aren't capable of doing something impossible is not just absurd, it is evil.
Real talk, these Horton videos are so funny because it helps us to laugh to keep from crying. Our system is a scam, while oligarchs profit and the good people suffer.
@@eddenoy321 the majority of people are good, but the constant demand to make an ever increasing stockpile to make it in this hellscape of a system makes them bad
I tried better help for awhile, if you really don't have anybody to talk to it can be ok for that. But i stopped using it after a few months. Plus it is still sort of expensive. It definitely isn't 24/7 support they give you like max 6 sessions per month. Like all therapy I've done it was somewhere between fine and meh when i was using it, thats about it.
I tried in-person help a few times and the experience is honestly mixed as well. I feel like these systems are just there to keep us pacified and prevent us from making any big societal change that can scare the elites. At best, it is okay and it's an outlet to let your problems out. At worst, you'll probably be told how shit of a person you are and probably lose control of your life if the psychologist believes you're in danger of threatening yourself. I'd rather die alone than with a person paid to pretend to care about my problems at this point.
6 sessions for $200 is pretty cheap when you compare it to the average, which is $100 to $200 per session. So in the real world, you would be paying $600 to $1200 for what you got.
@@sad_doggo2504 if you're really really in need and just have to vent or feel heard a little bit. Like maybe you just need a sounding board. I've had luck with some of these AI chat bots. I use characterAI sometimes. Pi ai was decent too. Might sound crazy but I'd say it's worth a shot.
@@sad_doggo2504 hey also I just remembered I went through this place called directions for living and got a few months of free therapy a while ago too so maybe look that up.
"We pulled ourselves up by our bootstraps, and I turned out just fine!" "I'm not sure you DID!" this is so fucking true though. Lots of people will go their whole lives without ever learning to recognize how broken they really are inside.
They don't want you retaliating because you realized how screwed up the system is, so they leave you naked in the dungeon with only scraps from three months ago to eat.
@@VideoGameStarChannelSupreme Even your closest relatives can blab endless shades of bullshit just to keep you unaware, docile, tame and easy to fuck with. Anything to disarm you psychologically and keep you that way.
I had a terrible experience with better health. I mentioned how I was physically locked in a room and kept there with threats of suicide and she said “I don’t want you to feel bad about that, to me it just sounds like they cared” - I was very vulnerable at the time but that didn’t sit quite right and I cancelled my account. Now I wonder if she was licensed at all lol.
They're required to have a Master's degree in psychology and be a state licensed mental health specialist or counselor. Most of them are still bad though, just like doctors. They go to school forever and still suck.
"Have you tried working on your response to other people? Their response to you is okay, but you should consider smiling and being more approachable. We all go thru these things. Don't let it control you." -Therapist help be like:
You know, I confronted my dad about he whole “pull yourself up by your boot straps” thing and how that task is impossible in every aspect only to get the response “it’s just a saying”. Now I am starting to think an entire generation misunderstood a saying just like nobody ever responds correctly to “do you mind” correctly.
I mean, a lot of generations misunderstood that capitalism is good. Probably has to do with them being dumb-dumbs, being fed propaganda all their lives or being taught BS. Not surprising honestly, if you model your education system on the idea of a captain of industry who only wanted to churn out ideal workers...
A little difficult to take someone seriously on “honest ads” when the first few minutes is shilling for overpriced garbage food marketed as a gourmet meal
Individual therapists may or may not be. Better help is just a digital tech bros middle man. Like how Facebook is a media company that doesn't produce media and Uber is a taxi company without having taxis. BH don't actually care and uses both therapists and clients for profits regardless of human cost.
@@samphelps856 I feel like my last therapist (through Medicaid, not betterhelp) was a bit of one... mainly because every problem I had was basically "well then just avoid that thing then", or pushing non-FDA approved herbal supplements that never worked (didn't even get any placebo effect). :( Sucks because she was the only therapist available at the time in my whole county. Ended up stopping and only have a psychiatrist now, but at least feel there is more help through medication than talk therapy (not that talk therapy would ever help with most of my current symptoms like fatigue which don't matter if I am happy or not). I feel like the most effective therapy I've ever gotten was going to a "therapeutic day school" back in high school, because they really pinpointed and focused on our weaknesses and push us to progress to improve those. That and even more, the environment of classroom with no more than 9 students and no homework really was positively life-changing to the previously socially-withdrawn/emotionally-unstable/selective-mute teenage me. Maybe I've plateaued because of that though, and I'm already as good as I'll get. I'm at a place where I don't feel suicidal or like hurting anyone, and can socialize normally enough to not be questioned (used to be asked if I spoke English, if something was wrong, etc). I mainly just still feel social anxiety (normal awkwardness), and fatigue and mild ADHD and Depression symptoms.
Honest Ads: Satirically ripping apart corporations trying to scam you out of your money. Also Honest Ads: Our integrity has a price tag. Buy glorified day old ready meals because you find making a sandwich or boiling pasta hard.
@@InJeffable Here in the UK, a TV dinner bought in a supermarket is less than £5 (roughly $7). Their markup is insane. No wonder they have the money to spam sponsor contracts everywhere.
THIS... the IRONYYYYY I mean... I guess they need to make money too, but I hope they actually make an honest ads for the meal plan companies at some point too. I swear I was looking for the parody the entire time they were doing the ad spot for Factor... 15$ per frozen dinner? That's insane - I've seen comparable or BETTER frozen meals at the supermarket for under 8$. Why the FK would I pay 15$ per frozen meal? Nevermind that they may be owned by Hello Fresh, and those prices for the plans are STUPID when you look into them. What you get: food for LESS than 3-5 MEALS per week (hint: you usually likely eat at least 2 meals A DAY for 7 days of the week) for 2 or 4 people. Cost: CHEAPEST (not including first box discount) is 60-70$ PER WEEK CANADIAN PRICE before shipping and taxes. I'm sorry, 60-70$ for 2-person box with 3 meals FOR THE WHOLE WEEK, is not only NOT going to feed you all week (meaning you still need to go grocery shopping) its ALSO MORE THAN YOU WOULD HAVE PAID FOR THE FRESH INGREDIENTS AT THE FKING STORE. Which would provide more than enough for MORE than 1-2 meals, in most cases. The absurdity... These sh1tty "solutions" to problems we do not have (you can just order the delivery of most groceries from the grocery stores since Pandemic hit us in 2020 anyways, at least here in Canada most major retailers of food will deliver for a small fee now) are so worthless they can only be of mild use to the rich people who are able to throw money in the trash for pretty much nothing and not feel the lack of funds because of it. These meal plans are for rich, lazy and dumb people who can't do basic maths, and no one is going to change my mind about that.
@@bakaichigo Don't get me wrong, I get why they do the ads. Everyone needs money and it ain't like RUclips is sharing the well but, you know, they do have a choice over which product they endorse and endorsing a product that's overtly a scam after making years of satire against that sort of thing comes across rather hypocritical.
Anna Akana is one RUclipsr I watch who promotes Better Help. I'm going to give her the benefit of the doubt and say that maybe she just doesn't know how problematic they are (like all those RUclipsrs who were promoting Established Titles back in the day), but that's not really an excuse. They really need to do their homework on this stuff.
I was waiting for Roger to come in and debunk the mail order meal thing but nope, turns out even Roger has a price tag. Guess we won't be seeing any "If mail-order meals were honest" any time soon.
My ex tried to get me to use betterhelp. She was abusive, and whenever I stood up for myself, she'd tell me I'm broken and need therapy. It was pretty messed up. Therapy _can_ be great, but she only brought it up when she was clearly in the wrong and wanted to deflect blame.
Yo my ex did that to me too, people like that are messed up. Convincing someone they are mentally ill to deflect blame is the scariest shit. It’s even worse when that person is mentally ill so they can be manipulated easy
@@Em-jj2hpA typical pattern was... she'd hurt me or make problems which impact me, then she'd see the consequences of her actions (me crying, exhausted, or cleaning up her messes), and she'd feel guilty. So she'd decide I'm the problem (for "making her feel bad"), get mad at me for it, and tell me I need therapy. But if she didn't want to feel bad about what she did, all she had to do was ... stop doing those things.
I've tried therapy a few times but I'm too poor to afford anyone good. I went to one therapist to talk about some trauma that happened in my childhood, but she only seemed interested in my current dating life. She kept asking about it and even giggled with glee when I would mention a crush or whatever, but seemed completely bored otherwise. Over the course of our meetings I had the slow and miserable realization that I was paying someone to help me who had the maturity and mental capacity of a 13 year old at a sleepover. I desperately needed help, but without the money to afford someone good, I was as good as alone.
I'm a combat veteran with PTSD, I got therapy through the VA, but no longer go. I've found other ways of settling my mind. This video doesn't talk about ways to help yourself, that's a bit dark. If you're all messed up, be it depression, anxiety, PTSD (my issues) or something else, you CAN (and will) get better. Just start very small. Start your day with something like making your bed (what I make sure to do when feeling bad), or doing a chore you've been putting off. Accomplishing one small thing will set you up to accomplish another, or at the very least will mean you did something positive. Accomplishing goals no matter how small they may be, will be another mental check for you. I know even the most simple tasks can seem impossible when depression is hitting you hard, but just get one done and I promise, if at least for a moment, you'll feel better. And remember whoever you are, somebody out there loves you. Now go make your bed.
"...may, or may not be licensed..." 😵🙁😯 After watching MBTI videos, I was a month away from subscribing to Better-Help ☺. Thank you Better-Hort for helping me dodge that one.
MBTI as in Meyers Briggs? That has zero to do with therapy. Why would you watch a video about a silly type indicator instead of ones about actual therapy from professionals?? ( I don't disagree about Better Help though)
@@wellhellothere6347 BH and MB have something in common. They're both BS. The MB test is as accurate as an online "Which Disney Princess Are You" quiz or basing your life decisions on your horoscope.
My therapist called me codependent when I said something about my boyfriend's "girl best friend " felt off.. After months of feeling crazy and trying to work on my 'jealousy issues' turns out he knew she liked him, he liked her at one point and they almost slept together. So.......... i want my money back....
Even though better help is a complete joke, I think this says more about how messed up the American healthcare system is that it's cheaper to go online for help than an actual therapist. I'm glad I live in the UK
We live in Bristol, England, and our experience is that there is NO mental healthcare available unless you go private. We just get passed from pillar to post, as everyone says, 'We don't do that, but they do'.
Yeah, good luck sorting out years of trauma with 6 'free' sessions with a government employee who takes until session 5 to remember your name and then, once you start to believe you may be making progress, tells you your 'free' sessions are over and you're on your own.
Just keep ingesting that propaganda. Of course the US has problems just like the UK has problems. In terms of healthcare the UK has proven that it does not have the answer to US healthcare issues. Few people on either side seem to really grasp what the actual issues are.
Yea the older generation took out their frustration and stress on their wife and kids after their dose of a liter of cheap whiskey and a 12 pack of Milwaukee’s Best Ice. What’s even worse, men in the south that worked full time weren’t frowned upon when they beat their wife and kids. Only if they were unemployed or had an office job
If you're looking into therapy, step one is making sure you're not eating terribly or drinking gallons of caffeine every day. The number of people that say they have anxiety but never stop downing energy drinks all day is crazy.
The cheery music jingle has me convinced that throwing my information and money away will make me feel better and turn into a vapid, smiling zombie of a person. Just the way the big tech companies like it.
It really speaks to how little we value mental health here in the US that in-person therapy (let's say up to four sessions a month) isn't fully covered by even the most basic health insurance at the very least. So, what do some of the people who can't afford in-person therapy do? They turn to a scam like Better Help. I appreciate you guys shining a light on this online therapy stuff. It sounded way too good to be true.
In 'murrica mental health isn't health and teeth aren't either. Seriously though, lack of mental health also pushes people into way too much 'alternative medicine' like homeopathy. The American dream is alive and well if you are looking to screw some people over.
In person therapy isn't great either. CBT and DBT are great tools, but you don't need one-to-one therapy to learn the important concepts. In fact, it works better in a group so you can get multiple perceptives, social solidarity and the opportunity to view problems with some objectivity. It's also cheaper in a group which is why the medical industry really prefers you have your own individual therapist. Online therapy shows the glaring inadequacies, but the metaphor used in the video, "Maybe the weight isn't that heavy," is pretty spot on in my experience. I once told a therapist about an issue I was having at work, they told me it's all in my head. Then when I had solid evidence that what I knew was occurring was actually occurring, they told me I need to increase my "tolerance." I asked how I could do that, they said theyd research that and they never really got back to me. Essentially they tried to get me to gaslight myself and when that didn't work anymore they told me to, "toughen up." And I, being a fool, gave them several thousand dollars for it too.
@@Dnichols619 The problem with a lot of group therapy, is that when you pile a group of people with similar problems together they can reinforce and normalize negative behaviors and thoughts, rather than actually working to cope/change those negative patterns. It can easily become a reinforcing issue of "I don't need to change my behavior, all of these other people behave just like me too, the world just needs to change to accommodate me!". This is a well documented problem, especially in anger management and other impulsive response type issues. Particularly if the impulsive response has been normalized in their environmental upbringing.
I think the second biggest issue is that people think that mental therapy is something everyone should always be doing. It's supposed to be used like physical therapy, you go for a while after an injury to get yourself back to full strength and then stop going and use the techniques you learned to do any maintenance you need on your own.
Totally unrelated, but i hate when people say "pull yourself up by your bootstraps". It's reductive, we are all one village, we need to love and charish one another. Solve problems, i suffer from PTSD and chronic bpd episodes, i help with the homeless as best i can, and stacy, a really good friend of mine, runs a pantry where i live. I don't have a normal 9 to 5 job, but i do my best to help her by driving to different stores to pick up donated food. I want to believe that people are capable of love, but recently, im starting to question that in my 42 years of life.
And don't get me started on there being literally no system anywhere to check and verify the personality style and intentions of the mental health agents, nor any laws regulating terms like counsellor or therapist in many parts of the world, thereby leaving vulnerable people in a perpetual open season for predators. Wouldn't want the education systems to teach kids about mental health, how minds work and personality styles / predators, then what would the poor abusers do to pass the time?
Therapy is like every other service. You have to do your research, get a therapist that both understands you and is competent in your issue, and then be willing to do the work. Lots of snake oil providers, but then lots of good ones also. Some who provide services for free or at greatly reduced rates. Now do a spot on clients who expect the therapists to be available 24-7, charge less than a nail manicure, and tell them exactly what they want to hear, while ignoring any evidence based strategies they are taught, and awaiting a miracle in one session.
An alcoholic friend who blames everything past and present on her ex-husband went to therapists. Did they help her with her underlying problem, which is her alcoholism? No. They told her what she wanted to hear and that her drinking was a normal reaction. So she keeps drinking...her teeth are falling apart...she can't stay upright some days, and keeps falling over and being taken to Emergency. The Ambos even used to put AA cards in her pockets. Replace addiction to alcohol with addiction to religion. That's not really helping :P
If you could do all that, what's stopping you from just finding the solution to your own problem? Many people spend more time and money on therapy than they would on getting certified to give therapy, lol
@@Uruz2012 Most people can't see a problem clearly when they're too close to it. An outsider's perspective is useful. A therapist is supposed to be an outsider who's trained to be particularly good at identifying mental health problems and how to address them, and who won't just tell you what you want to hear. The problem with therapy is the therapists who fall short of that.
How it'd probably go: "Want to live the illusion of financial freedom and not have to work anymore? Invest in the Horton 500, which is an index full of all kinds of Horton-related companies that control the entire nation. In the meantime, we'll have our very financial savvy analysts manipulating the stock up and down while our corporate overlords constantly tell their investors how everything is fine, all the while they cash in their fortunes off the backs of every innocent soul that believed our hogwash that our stock will make them rich"
Honestly most "therapy" is just having a supportive friend you see often. The problem is that's becoming harder and harder to find. The out going people overload themselves with 20 or 30 "friends" and never really experience any of them. While introverts its easier then ever to rarely if ever need to deal with people. The folks in the middle do alright but they are getting to be a smaller and smaller group as people get pulled into one or the other two groups too easily.
As someone who's tried to become one of these counselors, I can say you got a lot of information wrong. You are required to have at least a Master's Degree in psychology (that's 6 years of college) and you have to be a certified counselor or mental health specialist (which requires a master's, extra courses, exams, and 2 more years of interning). They're also required to follow hippa privacy guidelines.
After working for multiple fast food places during my teenage years through early 20's I can attest that despite wearing gloves most fast food employees scratch their asses, wipe their face, pick their nose, etc while in the process of assembling the over-priced, low-quality burgers you purchase. When I worked at an Arby's I once saw a co-worker drop a roast beef and cheddar sandwich on the ground (it fell apart) then pick it up, wipe it off with his glove, add some more roast beef on top, an extra squirt of cheese, then put the bun back on, wrapped it, and put it in the bag for the drive-thru customer like nothing happened. I mentioned this to our boss and he didn't give a shit and actually thanked the other employee for not wasting product. The fucking sandwich fell apart, landed meat/cheese-first on the ground, and got served. I don't know if you've ever worked in fast food but the floors get greasy and filthy and eating that could give a person food poisoning. I also used to work at a KFC and I remember when another employee was clearly sick but showed up and while battering the chicken he was coughing all over it and spraying mucus while doing so. I told him I'd take over and most of the chicken had green phlegm all over it so I started throwing it away and my boss wrote me up for it. He said I was wasting product and when I mentioned why I did so he told me to not worry about because it got fried anyways. Another time I worked at McDonald's and literally saw another worker re-adjust her pad (she was on her period I assume) with her glove in between assembling food, she didn't wash her hands or change her gloves. Worked at a Sonic Drive-In as well and seen multiple issues there but one of the worst was when an employee dropped an order of tots and then scooped them all off the ground with his gloves and then put them back in the carton, seen a coworker who clearly had the flu have nasal drainage in a persons milkshake as well. Yeah... I don't eat fast food anymore lol.
I tried one of these apps once and literally the only responses they gave me in my "therapy" session was a definition of anxiety that sounded like they were reading from a script. Like yes, im well aware what anxiety is. Can i have medication for my bipolar disorder now?
You can see a licensed psychologist for about 60 an hour on zoom. You can also negotiate with in-person therapists to ask for their uninsured rate. They might have spots available for those in need or if your needs are greater than your insurance cover. Psychiatry can be pretty inaccessible but you can sometimes find GPs who have clinical experience in mental health and who will see you as a GP (and get insurance cover) and work with you on medication if you need it. It isn't ideal, but this isn't an ideal system
T_T yeah that 60$/hr is about what I found out here too, and that is STILL far too expensive for literally anyone on disability or welfare and even for most people making under 40k a year, depending on where they live here (in Canada). That adds up to about 240$/month that most of the people who need the services cannot afford (at least here). At least we CAN get referred to a psychiatrist easily enough, even if it does sometimes take a bit of a wait, and there are group programs that you can get onto waiting lists for after doing lengthy interviews over the phone that you also have to wait on a long waiting list for... The system is broken and no one is fixing it. :(
A "restaurant quality" meal is nothing to brag about. They're typically the most unhealthy type of food one can consume due to the added fats, salt and abnormally high level of both preservatives and synthetic chemicals used in their processing.
Most people looking for stuff like that are looking more for taste quality than they are for healthiness. If someone cares that much about healthiness they'll go out of their way to spend more to buy ingredients directly that meet whatever their nutritional goals are.
I just looked it up to confirm, and you're absolutely right. WOW. It's not even really an affordable alternative to in-person therapy. $90 per session? $90 per MONTH would be high for someone who has mental health issues and is also struggling to make ends meet.
@@InJeffable Can confirm, looked into this awhile ago for my partner and I. He's on disability, so obviously does not have "play money" of any sort. Cannot for the life of us get funding approved to get in-person going, so looked into BetterHelp to see if it was even at little affordable... It was not, not even with the discounts for lower-incomes that was offered... STILL over 250$ a month! Absolutely fking riddic~!
That’s dark, but you forgot about the tone deaf ads that sudden materialize multiple times in the middle of concentrating on prerecorded online therapy video lessons.
Could have also mentioned that the whole field is still in its infancy. Most people in Therapy stay in it indefinitely as mentioned with the "more therapy" gag but also most people I have known on it have just gotten worse, since not all therapists are the same, most are incompetent. In the end it is better to have one friend or sibling willing to listen and share their opinion then the most expensive therapist. Ever hear of the series Persona? based on Jungian Psychology it is basically its thesis that interpersonal and emotional issues are solved by talking to friends.
That makes sense... Anyone who thinks paying more than double monthly grocery costs for a family of 3-4 people, for LESS food than needed for 1-2 people, is either so rich they can't tell they are loosing money here or just really gullible and about to bankrupt themselves. Hello Fresh alone is just awful - lowest plan is 2 people and 3 meals a week for 30 FKING DOLLARS with the discount. 3 meals for 30$? ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! PEOPLE, PLEASE, JUST GO TO THE GROCERY FKING STORE! T_T Why on earth would anyone pay 30$ (THATS THE 1ST BOX DISCOUNT BTW) for LESS food?! I mean at least if you go to the store you can get enough food to make 3 meals a day for all 7 days of the week...
You started out Honest Ads with an ad that I couldn't tell was an ad and was never sure if you were about to start lampooning them, yet despite this, it still feels like you gave Factor their money's worth of advertisement lmao. Pretty good.
The problem is that if you are neurodivergent or have a debilitating mental illness, there's no way to tell what parts of your experiences are normal human things and which are symptoms. Before I tried ADHD meds I thought I was the problem. Before I sought help for the first time I thought being miserable and having nothing to live for was normal. At that point I had literally forgotten what it was like to be happy and content with life, and I thought it was just an impossible thing to achieve. I was told by a psychologist in 2020 that I didn't have ADHD and as a result I nearly dropped out of university and nearly took my own life. Only after I actually got diagnosed and started meds did things start getting better and now that I know that many of the things I experience aren't "normal" I can take action deal with them so that they don't ruin my life. Considering that mental health institutions are consistently failing mentally unhealthy people who are seeking help, I don't think we as a society should be putting the blame on the people who are just trying to get help and fix things. Self-diagnosing thought TikTok isn't a solution, but shaming struggling people is moving even further away from the solution. Mental health care needs to be more accessible, then people won't self-diagnose thought TikTok
Situation is quite bad in country where I am from. Also the fact, that I am dependent on my parents and I am still studying, and I honestly don't think it's an option to tell them that I think I have level 1 ASD and ADHD (I am sure about first one about 90%, my social life and my interests kinda scream about it) And what to say if I am formally and adult and in my country they DON'T EVEN DIAGNOSE ADULT ASD AT ALL Of course I am self-diagnosed, pffft At least I am not self medicating, that's truly dangerous path
Ah, the irony of a channel making fun of ads lying to us promoting an ad that comprises of what tastes and feels like stiff cardboard while claiming it is “restaurant quality”.
Even "real therapy" is more limited in its scope than many people realize. Therapy can help people to learn to introspect more, but at the end of the day most of therapy's benefits can be gained from just having a friend to talk to and have some person to bounce your thoughts off of, so you won't completely get stuck in your own head. When it comes to quite serious mental problems, all kinds of therapy have abysmal success rates. If therapy in these cases was judged by the same standard we judge efficacy of pharmaceuticals they would rank somewhere near taking multivitamins to cure your depression. Sure, in some very specific cases it might work, but in most cases it's basically a placebo. That being said, something similar also applies to many pharmaceuticals used to treat mood disorders. Demographic that benefits the most from therapy are the people who have some issues, but those issues are not completely debilitating. Like someone with a very busy life and needs some neutral third party to vent their frustrations to. When it comes to these more serious mental disorders like schizophrenia, severe depression etc you are kinda on your own to figure it out, even if you had access to the best mental care money can buy. If you are unlucky enough to not have a family that cares about you, your prospects for recovery are very grim. If one of you knows people who have serious mental issues, choosing to stick by their side will have multitudes of greater impact on their chances to make it through than any type of therapy does.
^^ thank you. i haven't heard enough people talking about this. i've been in therapy for close to 7 yrs. cbt and dbt have been very minimally helpful, and I've been with tons of different providers who use different approaches. talk therapy helps me set small goals and organize my thoughts but hasn't helped address deeper needs. I have bipolar type II, so i'm moderately or severely depressed almost all the time interspersed with short bursts of mild manic symptoms. medication and broad life-style changes have been the most helpful aspects of my treatment. i've tried changing the ways in which I approach mental health counseling, trying to get the most out of it. but if your problems are more associated with pervasive moods and mental states than with emotions and reactions, there's only so much cognitive reframing can accomplish imo. i'm already introspective (sometimes too introspective) so I always get stuck in therapy. wouldn't want to deter anyone from seeing what they can get out of therapy if available but I just wish it wasn't pushed so hard as the first and most critical line of treatment for anyone with a psychological problem. its unfortunate that the outlook for serious mental health disorders is so bleak but thats the ugly truth of where we're at. I've experienced it firsthand. whenever things start getting really bad for me, the only thing I've been able to turn to is the support of my friends and family. these are real diseases that you cannot save yourself from. and people without support don't get better. lethality of bipolar II is shocking just on its own. we have basically no idea how the human brain works and where a lot of these conditions come from. passionate people are working hard to learn but the incentive to develop new treatments (especially non-pharmaceutical ones) is lower than other types of illness bc there's lingering stigma and misinformation in addition to the fact that ppl with severe psychological conditions are often on the margins of society and can't voice their needs
Therapy was life changing for me, but I also got in when I was a late teen and had zero structure or support from other areas ofmy life. I have no doubt that if I had a wise and stable shoulder to vent to and rely on for good advice or to teach me healthy coping mechanisms, I wouldn't have needed a therapist. But I didn't have those things, so therapy was absolutely critical in my growth and ability to maintain mental stability. In a perfect world all therapists would be trained experts in human behavior that would be helpful to literally anyone. Unfortunately they're not all created equally, they are human and subsiquantly flawed by their own underlying biases, motives, struggles, and other factors, and on top of that we live in a world that demands profit and capitalizing off of literally everything, which tends to make things messy. It's not a perfect system. In fact it's a pretty messed up system. But I think there's good people in there, knowledgeable people who want to help and can provide a lifeline for the people like me who probably wouldn't be here if not for them.
@@pendafen7405 Vitamin D deficiencies can be really sneaky. Especially if you don't use a lot of dairy products and stay indoors a lot. Mine at one point went to around 12 nmol/L. For reference under 50 is considered a deficiency and below 25 a severe deficiency. I only noticed when my feet started having hairline fractures every other week. Getting vitamin D sorted helped a ton with my mood as well.
A really good video, but I wish that they had more to say about the actual in-person therapy. After dunking on social media and BetterHelp, they only really could say “Also in-person therapy sucks, too”. But it doesn’t! It’s meaningful and impactful. The price issue is very, very real. The stigmatization about how “Therapists don’t really help” is just toxically bad misinformation that discourages people from getting assistance. I loved the rest of the video, though!
I thought for sure Roger was going to hold the weight while the guy passed him a wad of cash. Then pass back the weight while saying ' see you in a week ' Or put to slightly smaller weights on the bar
@@sandybruce9092that's the thing, most of the times people suffering those things either don't have friends or don't want to talk about really sensitive themes
Misinformation? I've never met a single therapist not out to make you worse than you started. A lot of people have been burned in a similar fashion. It's an industry full of sharks
Unsubbing. Taking ads for a company that sells an overpriced frozen meal delivery service whose very working environment pushes its employees to the brink every day? Your videos mock this kind of thing all the time and now claim you are being "honest [about the] ads within [your] ads". It's pathetic that you've sold out to capitalism and try to hold on to integrity. There's still time to delete this video and send that money back to that shameful company, but of course you won't.
Even with all this, it's still a step forward from the days when admitting you went to a therapist made people think you were insane or dangerous. There's plenty of issues with Better Help, and I hope a more worthy competitor comes along with better business practices, but it can be nice to know that someone can help, even in a limited way.
People still think you're "insane or dangerous" for seeking therapy. Just ask anyone who works in a safety-sensitive career such as pilot, firearms instructor, etc. If they find out you're getting mental therapy, you're out of a career.
Cough police officer cough. Those guys see some messed up stuff...and yet we expect them to act perfectly in every situation without help. I had a car accident once. The other driver was high on cocaine. Thankfully no one was hurt. The cop who responded to the accident had just gotten off a call dealing with the murder of a baby at a local hospital. That's just a few hours of one shift in a decades long career. As a security guard myself I've been first on the scene for shootings, armed robberies, kidnappings, car wrecks, and quite a few over doses. Nothing compared to a cop though.
@@paulis7319 True, and MentourNow did a great video on the need to allow pilots (among others) the ability to seek mental health help without permanently grounding them. A difficult subject, but one that I maintain we have achieved some small progress on.
@@michaelharris8598 Reason 19485863 I would never date or befriend a cop or a soldier. Sounds harsh and judgemental, but it's just a personal safety boundary. They've all seen too much shit, and that deeply traumatises even the minority of decent non-powertripping non-violent non-bullying ones.
I used to work for one of those prepared meal companies a few years ago. I only stayed for a couple of weeks and said fuck this shit! People dropped food on the floor and put it in the meal kits. People wiped snot on their noses and kept on packing food. I always thought they were bs for lazy people. Just get off your lazy asses and go to the store and buy your food! As far as the online therapy... I never thought it was any good or barely legal. Heck, many of the mouth breathers with degrees are barely legit. They make you sometimes even feel worse than before you started seeing them. You're better off getting a book.
We use to have structures built into communities(religions, warrior/men's/women's societies, etc) where a lot of pain and stress could be expressed in a more or less "healthy" way of course a lot of these were extremely problematic and could create unhealthy pressure of their own but in most societies they found a way to have escape valves for most people, as we became more concerned with profits and expansion we got rid of a lot of these because they got in the way or we streamlined them so they only really benefited the elite who sought to control the population. Counterculture was often an attempt to recreate these societies but most failed due to good old human greed and desire for control. We can hope people can rediscover a sense of community again so that people can get back a place to help them with their mental health.
Exactly. Is isolation that makes us mentally sick. We don't need all that bs, and I am psychologist but I have seen how really most of the people have no talent, and when you see that more community oriented places have better quality of life is when you realize that this is the way.
Use code HONESTADS50 to get 50% OFF your first Factor box and free wellness shots for life with any active subscription at bit.ly/4bGf1jK !
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Sellout to factor. Unsubbed.
this Honest ads post/comment shows it's 2 days old but the video is 1 hr old.... wth
@@HunterslammerBut I love getting glorified microwave ready meals that have been sitting in a mailvan/post office for days! It's not like making your own meals is cheaper, healthier and tastier!
the fact that every 3rd youtuber promotes betterhelp as if it actually improved their lives.
Let's see an "if online meal services were honest"
For real! It's just processed food like any other, with more convincing advertising.
Only the finest TV dinners!
I actually like factor.....it just costs too much and makes you more lazy.
Go to the frozen food section, buy a trolley load of frozen meals, and put in freezer
@@TheKrispyfort packed with sodium and other crap.
The irony - If FACTOR were honest, it probably wouldn't tout "Restaurant Quality Meals" in the first 15 seconds.
i mean it really depends on what restaurant you're talking about. plenty of restaurants sell overpriced frozen trash food.
Just kind of ironic that they do the same shit they accuse others of doing! "Those other guys aren't honest but let's sell you some frozen TV dinners while we talk trash about talk therapy!"
This is almost as bad as when I saw gamer RUclipsrs crapping on bad games while being sponsored by Raid Shadow Legends!
Ive been to some shitty restaurants the bars pretty low
I love Factor’s boxes of vaguely food-flavored Salt
I've never used them, is factor a bad company or what?
The analogy with struggling with weights hits hard. Especially the “it’s not a big deal actually, I’ll be fine” part in the end.
The thing is lifting those weights on his own does act make him stronger. He seems to have good form. As long as he isn't compensating in a way that will ultimately hurt him, struggling on his own makes him stronger than if someone took the load off.
@@Didleeios88yea, but to further the analogy, life doesn’t make sure you can lift a weight before giving you one. So you’ll end up hurting yourself if you’re not ready and trained how to lift. Then that injury just makes it harder to lift weights in the future, an end less cycle until you ask someone to help.
I agree with you entirely. If someone is not lifting the weight correctly they do indeed need some support/education.
At the same time I think we live in a generation where people believe the solution is for someone else to lift the weight for them. This does not allow us to get stronger.
Sometimes even the struggle to figure out how to lift the weight is more valueable then being told how.
The truth is that rather than "help" from strangers in an app (or even the therapist couch), we need empathy from real people in our lives with whom we have real two-way relationships@@Zack-bl2gg
@@Didleeios88naw brother that's the issue. You can't get stronger if you can't lift the weight properly. Think of actual therapy like a personal trainer. Its there to spot ya when you need it and point out when your form is lacking or dangerous. Could you achieve the same results yourself? Yeah over time it's possible. Is it easier and safer with a personal trainer (real therapist)? Hell yeah. Just because something is harder doesn't mean it's better.
" The fact that we exist at all is a regulatory nightmare." That covers it completely.
As is everything app based
You crossed the line from insightful gags to public service announcement. How that company is allowed to exist and advertise on CERTAIN platforms, I have no idea.
My most sincere thanks for sharing.
a part of me wishes better health was the sponsor.
It's allowed to exist because people aren't allowed to kill DA VIBE in reality.
People use those services because either they are alone physically, or get accused of bEinG nEgAtiVe when they need to vent to their FrIEnDs.
I'm looking forward to "If friendships were honest" 😂
@SomebodyHadToSayTh4tAarrooo, I’m sorry for that yes that’s how I genuinely reacted. I know you will probably think me weird, want to talk to me as if I’m a stupid stray dog, or in the most extreme want to banish me from society or send me to a animal shelter or school. What is your completely honest reaction and if you want to address me as a dog go ahead, I’m curious about what that would feel like from a stranger. ❤
There was quite an aggressive add campaign, not unlike the scam of that: give us money for a paper calling you Lord. Same value honestly.
If they headquarter in a country that does not follow or have mental health regulations, then they are essentially unprosecutable under any criminal statues... Civil statues, on the other hand, are always fair game.
Factor, all the food without any of that annoying flavor.
😂😂
Flavor?! That's disgusting!
It's healthy food with NO FLAVOR ADDED. And best of all: It's FART FREE!
That "I'm not sure you did..." is hitting hard.😂😂😂
I chuckled too 😂
😂😂
100% what I don't quite dare to say to my dad but often would like to
*dissmisses him completly*
isn't the futur exciting ?
I can think of a few people who think they are "fine" when they've been in desperate need of a good therapist for most of their lives.
FYI; Just because you get distracted reading boring textbooks doesn’t mean you have ADHD
I fell down the Tiktok rabbit hole that made me think I have ADHD or something else, but really I was just lazy. I can tell because what I've been struggling with before I can do now, I jut got around to building my self discipline (finally). It really should be illegal to share misinformation like that
@@katechasteto be fair, you could also be masking or found your own ways of dealing with a disability. You know, like most people have done throughout history before we knew about the existence of neurodivergent people.
Sick of ignorant people self diagnosing 😂😂 preach
That's just code for "has doctors permission to do amphetamines legally"
Yea, I find it annoying angsty people on the internet are self-diagnosing themselves with these things and misrepresenting them. I have a friend whose wife uses ADHD as an excuse for her bad behavior all the time and it just infuriates me that he falls for it every time… 🙃
I thought the Factor ad was just satire not a actual ad😂
Same
Ad within an ad uhh? Okay guys. It’s time to go full meta. “If Honest ads were honest” needs to be made asap.
Tv dinners will NEVER taste or look even close to food from a proper restaurant.
I agree. What little I could see at the start of this video looked pretty sad, and it's never good to microwave your food. On top of that, I found out by doing a little online research that Factor meals are $15 each at the CHEAPEST. Absolutely absurd.
Lmao every one of those meal service plans are a joke/scam. The ONLY people who can afford ANY of them are people with more than middle-class incomes who already spend over 100$ a week on food. A WEEK, NOT MONTH, A FKING WEEK. Like, Chef's Plate and Hello Fresh are hilariously fking awful for cost. I, being poor like I am, originally thought these would be options for me. NO, OF COURSE THESE ARE FOR RICH LAZY PEOPLE. 😆 What WAS I thinking...
Hello Fresh, for example, is 1-5 MEALS a WEEK, so not a full week's worth of food, it's like 1 meal a day for 5 days, or even less, if you are indeed feeding the minimum 2 people. If not, then you have double portions so there's some leftovers to stretch I guess... But it's still not a full week of food. BUT THE PRICES? For the "first box" with that "first" discount, you can get a box as cheap as like maybe 30$ Canadian before tax and shipping - but you pay PER WEEK and the very next box would be full price at like 70-100$ (before shipping and taxes, CAD). If you actually add that up, even at the cheapest non-discounted price, that's STILL 60$ x 4 (so 240$ a month on food - double the standard budget for a 1-2 person adult household). It's not only not affordable, it's providing LESS goods for the cost of DOUBLE what you'd have paid just going shopping at the grocery store 1-2x a month.
For one week of food (that will likely last into the next week) it's less than 50$ for me and my partner. That's our eggs, bread, butter if needed, veggies, fruits (fresh or frozen for either of these) and a couple other things like rice or pastas. I've gotten us by on 25$ for the week before, that's not so hard to do if you're not buying super expensive fresh ingredients.
At NO POINT would I consider it a valuable use of my money to be buying a box service that's going to cost me DOUBLE the national household budget for groceries FOR A FAMILY WITH AT LEAST ONE CHILD IN IT for PORTIONED food packets that can't even be stretched or used variably? For that kind of money, just go get the actual full products and have more than 5 meals a week. :|
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@@bakaichigo ok I get that, but I don't think they're market is toward low income, it's toward the people that are too busy to go to the store, they're actually a decent option for the work from homers/Content Creators.
Home cooked is always best. You know where your hands have been.
Finally someone on RUclips talks about how awful BetterHelp is! And they didn’t even cover everything. I’m really disappointed in the RUclipsrs who take their sponsorships
There are plenty of RUclipsrs that have.
I remember a couple of youtubers who did a video about better help and well, a few months later starter accepting sponsers from them again.... what...
@@merevel436 Money convinces.
Unfortunately when it comes down to it, most youtubers can't afford to say no to every sponsor that is bad. It's either they accept sponsorships from companies like this or Raid, or they can't afford to pay their bills. Particularly with how bad youtube's monetization policies have gotten over the years.
And let's face it, there's very few companies in the world that aren't shady once you look into them. If they advertise something good about themselves, or how they're doing something for the people, they're just doing it to draw more people in and not because they actually care about the well being of their consumers, and most are going to be doing something far worse behind the scenes that the average consumer will never know about unless they really go out of their way to dig into it.
@@merevel436 yeah, I know Cinema Therapy (of all people) had stopped and then “did their own research” by listening to other RUclipsrs sponsored by BH saying that BH wasn’t bad and then decided to send out a statement saying they would continue to be sponsored by them
For anyone who hasn't already heard: The whole expression "pulling oneself up by one's bootstraps" seems to have originated with a story about a man being inconvenienced by a stone wall across his land or something, and the newspaper writer joked about how the people building the wall must imagine he will pull himself up by the straps of his boots (that is, _lift himself into the air_ ) in order to cross this wall when needed. It was not a phrase for "get a grip", it was a phrase for "being expected to do something literally impossible".
I may be slightly off on some of the exact details, but that was the gist of it.
Yup, it was originally meant to be something that's impossible to do. So, whenever someone says that to you, you can say "Ah, so you want me to levitate! Very interesting..."
@@Lilith_XolaaniThey read too much Peter Pan as kids. They think happy thoughts can make you fly.
Whatever the origin, the modern meaning isn't to "get a grip" or "do something impossible." It means to take personal responsibility for your life. To exhaust all of your effort and resources trying to fix your own problems, before deciding that it's hopeless and asking for help. If you give up too quickly, then you will never know what you are truly capable of.
Yes for a long time this was meant as a joke, describing someone who said they did it All on their own, especially the children if the wealthy thinking they were self made men. I think it is stupid people reading it and not realizing that it was meant to be ironic caused it to actually become what it is today. Words do change meanings.
@@jakeviolet2195 I think you mean it means to do something literally impossible, like levitate. Because that is what those words imply by definition. People are not immune to their material condition, and denying people help because they aren't capable of doing something impossible is not just absurd, it is evil.
Now parody Factor, and I'll take you seriously.
Absolutely.
"the food you want, but without out that pesky food flavor on it"
Bro dissed so many people the only one willing to sponsor them was factor lol.
Real talk, these Horton videos are so funny because it helps us to laugh to keep from crying. Our system is a scam, while oligarchs profit and the good people suffer.
'The good people suffer" ? Where did you get the idea that greedy , foolish, wannabe rich people are "good" ?🤣
@@eddenoy321 the majority of people are good, but the constant demand to make an ever increasing stockpile to make it in this hellscape of a system makes them bad
You said what I said but with way less paragraphs. :'D WHY AM I NEVER ABLE TO BE CONCISE *runs away sobbing dramatically*
@@bakaichigo for the same reason ur friends probably enjoy hanging around you: U DRAMATIC lmaoo
If only Occupy Wall Street had been successful. We nearly got somewhere with that.
I tried better help for awhile, if you really don't have anybody to talk to it can be ok for that. But i stopped using it after a few months. Plus it is still sort of expensive. It definitely isn't 24/7 support they give you like max 6 sessions per month. Like all therapy I've done it was somewhere between fine and meh when i was using it, thats about it.
I tried in-person help a few times and the experience is honestly mixed as well. I feel like these systems are just there to keep us pacified and prevent us from making any big societal change that can scare the elites.
At best, it is okay and it's an outlet to let your problems out. At worst, you'll probably be told how shit of a person you are and probably lose control of your life if the psychologist believes you're in danger of threatening yourself.
I'd rather die alone than with a person paid to pretend to care about my problems at this point.
6 sessions for $200 is pretty cheap when you compare it to the average, which is $100 to $200 per session. So in the real world, you would be paying $600 to $1200 for what you got.
The sad thing is I can't even afford this 😭
@@sad_doggo2504 if you're really really in need and just have to vent or feel heard a little bit. Like maybe you just need a sounding board. I've had luck with some of these AI chat bots. I use characterAI sometimes. Pi ai was decent too. Might sound crazy but I'd say it's worth a shot.
@@sad_doggo2504 hey also I just remembered I went through this place called directions for living and got a few months of free therapy a while ago too so maybe look that up.
"We pulled ourselves up by our bootstraps, and I turned out just fine!"
"I'm not sure you DID!"
this is so fucking true though. Lots of people will go their whole lives without ever learning to recognize how broken they really are inside.
Having a real ad inside an honest ad video is just insane, but that's capitalism I guess. 🤷
In jail, they take away your bootstraps so you can't pull yourself up by them.
Belts and ties too.
Instead they just use you to push themselves up while you suffer on the ground.🖕🏻
They don't want you retaliating because you realized how screwed up the system is, so they leave you naked in the dungeon with only scraps from three months ago to eat.
@@VideoGameStarChannelSupreme Even your closest relatives can blab endless shades of bullshit just to keep you unaware, docile, tame and easy to fuck with. Anything to disarm you psychologically and keep you that way.
@@nickslade3978
I was using _pull yourself up_ euphemistically.
@@nickslade3978 I'm not gonna disagree with that. I hate my childhood because of it.
I had a terrible experience with better health. I mentioned how I was physically locked in a room and kept there with threats of suicide and she said “I don’t want you to feel bad about that, to me it just sounds like they cared” - I was very vulnerable at the time but that didn’t sit quite right and I cancelled my account. Now I wonder if she was licensed at all lol.
I am sorry about that. I hope things are better.
Sounds like a good choice to me! I hope you're in a better place now, or at least are getting the support you need D:
My parents used to lock me in a dark room
They're required to have a Master's degree in psychology and be a state licensed mental health specialist or counselor. Most of them are still bad though, just like doctors. They go to school forever and still suck.
"Have you tried working on your response to other people? Their response to you is okay, but you should consider smiling and being more approachable. We all go thru these things. Don't let it control you."
-Therapist help be like:
You know, I confronted my dad about he whole “pull yourself up by your boot straps” thing and how that task is impossible in every aspect only to get the response “it’s just a saying”. Now I am starting to think an entire generation misunderstood a saying just like nobody ever responds correctly to “do you mind” correctly.
No mind, your first mistake was mind... numbers goes burr, or worthless. Always up, gravity is propaganda...
@@Ael666
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What?
I mean, a lot of generations misunderstood that capitalism is good. Probably has to do with them being dumb-dumbs, being fed propaganda all their lives or being taught BS. Not surprising honestly, if you model your education system on the idea of a captain of industry who only wanted to churn out ideal workers...
What's the correct response to do you mind then?
@saintofall3653 Yes, if you have a problem. No, if you don't have a problem
A little difficult to take someone seriously on “honest ads” when the first few minutes is shilling for overpriced garbage food marketed as a gourmet meal
"Getting overwhelmed at taco bell is a normal human experience"... Welp, guess i was never a human 😂
It's after eatting taco bell that's overwhelming 😅
Exactly, they have like 5 items😂
weird. it's normally what happens AFTER eating taco bell that is overwhelming!
Having used Better Help in the past (which only provided temporary fixes, and I still get reminders to journal) watching this made me feel sick.
When you brain is hortin'.
Nice Dad joke Roger, nice Dad joke.
How is that a dad joke?
Agreed, good dad joke hehe
@@ZecVal Why and how is that a good dad joke?
@@MatthewTheWanderer Horting, Hurting. Get it?
@@ZecVal I do, now, lol. That's why dad jokes suck.
A one minute ad in a 5 minute video is seriously egregious. I need therapy now
LOL "FACTOR BOX!" if wellness shots were honest. LOL!
If botox clinics were honest
Roger finally takes on one of the biggest scams of our day. Kudos!
Are they really a scam? How so,have you used them before?
Individual therapists may or may not be. Better help is just a digital tech bros middle man. Like how Facebook is a media company that doesn't produce media and Uber is a taxi company without having taxis. BH don't actually care and uses both therapists and clients for profits regardless of human cost.
@@samphelps856 Doesn't make it one of the biggest scams of our day, there are way bigger scams out there.
@@samphelps856 I feel like my last therapist (through Medicaid, not betterhelp) was a bit of one... mainly because every problem I had was basically "well then just avoid that thing then", or pushing non-FDA approved herbal supplements that never worked (didn't even get any placebo effect). :(
Sucks because she was the only therapist available at the time in my whole county. Ended up stopping and only have a psychiatrist now, but at least feel there is more help through medication than talk therapy (not that talk therapy would ever help with most of my current symptoms like fatigue which don't matter if I am happy or not).
I feel like the most effective therapy I've ever gotten was going to a "therapeutic day school" back in high school, because they really pinpointed and focused on our weaknesses and push us to progress to improve those. That and even more, the environment of classroom with no more than 9 students and no homework really was positively life-changing to the previously socially-withdrawn/emotionally-unstable/selective-mute teenage me.
Maybe I've plateaued because of that though, and I'm already as good as I'll get. I'm at a place where I don't feel suicidal or like hurting anyone, and can socialize normally enough to not be questioned (used to be asked if I spoke English, if something was wrong, etc). I mainly just still feel social anxiety (normal awkwardness), and fatigue and mild ADHD and Depression symptoms.
I hope you mean the scam being the tech company and not ACTUAL therapy.
👇🏼 If pre-packed meal subscriptions were honest button
Honest Ads: Satirically ripping apart corporations trying to scam you out of your money.
Also Honest Ads: Our integrity has a price tag. Buy glorified day old ready meals because you find making a sandwich or boiling pasta hard.
I did a little research and found out that Factor meals are apparently $15 each at the CHEAPEST. For a glorified TV dinner. Absolutely absurd.
@@InJeffable Here in the UK, a TV dinner bought in a supermarket is less than £5 (roughly $7). Their markup is insane. No wonder they have the money to spam sponsor contracts everywhere.
THIS... the IRONYYYYY
I mean... I guess they need to make money too, but I hope they actually make an honest ads for the meal plan companies at some point too. I swear I was looking for the parody the entire time they were doing the ad spot for Factor... 15$ per frozen dinner? That's insane - I've seen comparable or BETTER frozen meals at the supermarket for under 8$. Why the FK would I pay 15$ per frozen meal? Nevermind that they may be owned by Hello Fresh, and those prices for the plans are STUPID when you look into them. What you get: food for LESS than 3-5 MEALS per week (hint: you usually likely eat at least 2 meals A DAY for 7 days of the week) for 2 or 4 people. Cost: CHEAPEST (not including first box discount) is 60-70$ PER WEEK CANADIAN PRICE before shipping and taxes.
I'm sorry, 60-70$ for 2-person box with 3 meals FOR THE WHOLE WEEK, is not only NOT going to feed you all week (meaning you still need to go grocery shopping) its ALSO MORE THAN YOU WOULD HAVE PAID FOR THE FRESH INGREDIENTS AT THE FKING STORE. Which would provide more than enough for MORE than 1-2 meals, in most cases.
The absurdity... These sh1tty "solutions" to problems we do not have (you can just order the delivery of most groceries from the grocery stores since Pandemic hit us in 2020 anyways, at least here in Canada most major retailers of food will deliver for a small fee now) are so worthless they can only be of mild use to the rich people who are able to throw money in the trash for pretty much nothing and not feel the lack of funds because of it.
These meal plans are for rich, lazy and dumb people who can't do basic maths, and no one is going to change my mind about that.
@@bakaichigo Don't get me wrong, I get why they do the ads. Everyone needs money and it ain't like RUclips is sharing the well but, you know, they do have a choice over which product they endorse and endorsing a product that's overtly a scam after making years of satire against that sort of thing comes across rather hypocritical.
oh no. They advertising for companies. Now we will never hear if factor was honest
Yep. BTW, Better Help has been sued by many clients. And several good RUclipsrs that I like have used them as a sponsor. Yech!
Anna Akana is one RUclipsr I watch who promotes Better Help. I'm going to give her the benefit of the doubt and say that maybe she just doesn't know how problematic they are (like all those RUclipsrs who were promoting Established Titles back in the day), but that's not really an excuse. They really need to do their homework on this stuff.
@@InJeffable Some people might just look the other way, for the right price that is
Sued for what? Giving bad advice?
I was waiting for Roger to come in and debunk the mail order meal thing but nope, turns out even Roger has a price tag. Guess we won't be seeing any "If mail-order meals were honest" any time soon.
I mean, I could see him doing it anyway, maybe when this sponsorship ends, PFFT.
My ex tried to get me to use betterhelp. She was abusive, and whenever I stood up for myself, she'd tell me I'm broken and need therapy. It was pretty messed up. Therapy _can_ be great, but she only brought it up when she was clearly in the wrong and wanted to deflect blame.
Glad for you she’s an ex
Yo my ex did that to me too, people like that are messed up. Convincing someone they are mentally ill to deflect blame is the scariest shit. It’s even worse when that person is mentally ill so they can be manipulated easy
@@Em-jj2hpA typical pattern was... she'd hurt me or make problems which impact me, then she'd see the consequences of her actions (me crying, exhausted, or cleaning up her messes), and she'd feel guilty. So she'd decide I'm the problem (for "making her feel bad"), get mad at me for it, and tell me I need therapy. But if she didn't want to feel bad about what she did, all she had to do was ... stop doing those things.
Some people in my family would do that. They would do something over the top and outlandish and then claim I need therapy.
I've tried therapy a few times but I'm too poor to afford anyone good. I went to one therapist to talk about some trauma that happened in my childhood, but she only seemed interested in my current dating life. She kept asking about it and even giggled with glee when I would mention a crush or whatever, but seemed completely bored otherwise.
Over the course of our meetings I had the slow and miserable realization that I was paying someone to help me who had the maturity and mental capacity of a 13 year old at a sleepover. I desperately needed help, but without the money to afford someone good, I was as good as alone.
I can make the same food as Factor for less than 15% of the cost... No thanks.
If you don't know how to cook or don't have time, a local Tesco has ready meals 4x cheaper too
I know right? 11 dollars a meal? Get the hell out of here with that. I can make a meal for 4 with that.
I'm a combat veteran with PTSD, I got therapy through the VA, but no longer go. I've found other ways of settling my mind. This video doesn't talk about ways to help yourself, that's a bit dark. If you're all messed up, be it depression, anxiety, PTSD (my issues) or something else, you CAN (and will) get better. Just start very small. Start your day with something like making your bed (what I make sure to do when feeling bad), or doing a chore you've been putting off. Accomplishing one small thing will set you up to accomplish another, or at the very least will mean you did something positive. Accomplishing goals no matter how small they may be, will be another mental check for you. I know even the most simple tasks can seem impossible when depression is hitting you hard, but just get one done and I promise, if at least for a moment, you'll feel better. And remember whoever you are, somebody out there loves you. Now go make your bed.
So sweet thank you
Exactly. It's good to understand cognitive distortions and other psychological nuggets but without action and growth talking is useless.
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I love you too thank you
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"...may, or may not be licensed..." 😵🙁😯 After watching MBTI videos, I was a month away from subscribing to Better-Help ☺. Thank you Better-Hort for helping me dodge that one.
MBTI as in Meyers Briggs? That has zero to do with therapy. Why would you watch a video about a silly type indicator instead of ones about actual therapy from professionals?? ( I don't disagree about Better Help though)
@@wellhellothere6347
BH and MB have something in common. They're both BS.
The MB test is as accurate as an online "Which Disney Princess Are You" quiz or basing your life decisions on your horoscope.
@@wellhellothere6347Briggs is totally wack
What the crap does myer-briggs have to do with Mental Health??
Just one more reason for you to stop watching MBTI videos. That bullshit is as scientific as horoscopes (which is to say, not scientific at all).
So refreshing to see influencers and Tiktok get the exposure they deserve - unqualified and toxic as hell.
Roger your a national treasure.
My therapist called me codependent when I said something about my boyfriend's "girl best friend " felt off.. After months of feeling crazy and trying to work on my 'jealousy issues' turns out he knew she liked him, he liked her at one point and they almost slept together. So.......... i want my money back....
Took me awhile to realize the beginning minute was a garbage ad, please announce sponsors up front or at least have a visual indication in the video.
Even though better help is a complete joke, I think this says more about how messed up the American healthcare system is that it's cheaper to go online for help than an actual therapist. I'm glad I live in the UK
We live in Bristol, England, and our experience is that there is NO mental healthcare available unless you go private. We just get passed from pillar to post, as everyone says, 'We don't do that, but they do'.
@cuddlepaws4423 I don't know what Bristol is like. I live in Birmingham and there's plenty of mental health services here on the NHS and I use them.
Have to agree. Mental health in the US is an absolute sh*t show, even if you can afford it.
Yeah, good luck sorting out years of trauma with 6 'free' sessions with a government employee who takes until session 5 to remember your name and then, once you start to believe you may be making progress, tells you your 'free' sessions are over and you're on your own.
Just keep ingesting that propaganda. Of course the US has problems just like the UK has problems. In terms of healthcare the UK has proven that it does not have the answer to US healthcare issues. Few people on either side seem to really grasp what the actual issues are.
Yea the older generation took out their frustration and stress on their wife and kids after their dose of a liter of cheap whiskey and a 12 pack of Milwaukee’s Best Ice. What’s even worse, men in the south that worked full time weren’t frowned upon when they beat their wife and kids. Only if they were unemployed or had an office job
I contacted Better Help. They told me that my case was too severe for them and they cannot help me.
Were you able to find a worker eventually somewhere else?
Damn! 😢
Sounds like they told you to get some better help 😂
That's actually kind of respectable of them. They didn't stick you with someone who's not qualified just so they can take your money.
If you're looking into therapy, step one is making sure you're not eating terribly or drinking gallons of caffeine every day.
The number of people that say they have anxiety but never stop downing energy drinks all day is crazy.
Protect this man at all cost
The cheery music jingle has me convinced that throwing my information and money away will make me feel better and turn into a vapid, smiling zombie of a person. Just the way the big tech companies like it.
If Honest ads were honest about Factor Ads
In person isn't always that bad but it can take a few tries to find the right therapist for you and it's not cheap, so many give up before it can work
It really speaks to how little we value mental health here in the US that in-person therapy (let's say up to four sessions a month) isn't fully covered by even the most basic health insurance at the very least. So, what do some of the people who can't afford in-person therapy do? They turn to a scam like Better Help. I appreciate you guys shining a light on this online therapy stuff. It sounded way too good to be true.
In 'murrica mental health isn't health and teeth aren't either. Seriously though, lack of mental health also pushes people into way too much 'alternative medicine' like homeopathy. The American dream is alive and well if you are looking to screw some people over.
In person therapy isn't great either. CBT and DBT are great tools, but you don't need one-to-one therapy to learn the important concepts. In fact, it works better in a group so you can get multiple perceptives, social solidarity and the opportunity to view problems with some objectivity. It's also cheaper in a group which is why the medical industry really prefers you have your own individual therapist. Online therapy shows the glaring inadequacies, but the metaphor used in the video, "Maybe the weight isn't that heavy," is pretty spot on in my experience. I once told a therapist about an issue I was having at work, they told me it's all in my head. Then when I had solid evidence that what I knew was occurring was actually occurring, they told me I need to increase my "tolerance." I asked how I could do that, they said theyd research that and they never really got back to me. Essentially they tried to get me to gaslight myself and when that didn't work anymore they told me to, "toughen up." And I, being a fool, gave them several thousand dollars for it too.
@@Dnichols619 The problem with a lot of group therapy, is that when you pile a group of people with similar problems together they can reinforce and normalize negative behaviors and thoughts, rather than actually working to cope/change those negative patterns. It can easily become a reinforcing issue of "I don't need to change my behavior, all of these other people behave just like me too, the world just needs to change to accommodate me!". This is a well documented problem, especially in anger management and other impulsive response type issues. Particularly if the impulsive response has been normalized in their environmental upbringing.
Good old for profit system. Not much in the mental health field.
I think the second biggest issue is that people think that mental therapy is something everyone should always be doing. It's supposed to be used like physical therapy, you go for a while after an injury to get yourself back to full strength and then stop going and use the techniques you learned to do any maintenance you need on your own.
This just about sums up getting mental healthcare in England.
Keep calm and carry on mate!
In Cymru we haven't even got shoddy unqualified data-mining online therapy, just nothing. Not sure if that's better or worse😅
Totally unrelated, but i hate when people say "pull yourself up by your bootstraps". It's reductive, we are all one village, we need to love and charish one another. Solve problems, i suffer from PTSD and chronic bpd episodes, i help with the homeless as best i can, and stacy, a really good friend of mine, runs a pantry where i live. I don't have a normal 9 to 5 job, but i do my best to help her by driving to different stores to pick up donated food. I want to believe that people are capable of love, but recently, im starting to question that in my 42 years of life.
Wow that's really scary! The Honest Ads comeback is not something I ever expected, but I love it.
And don't get me started on there being literally no system anywhere to check and verify the personality style and intentions of the mental health agents, nor any laws regulating terms like counsellor or therapist in many parts of the world, thereby leaving vulnerable people in a perpetual open season for predators. Wouldn't want the education systems to teach kids about mental health, how minds work and personality styles / predators, then what would the poor abusers do to pass the time?
Therapy is like every other service. You have to do your research, get a therapist that both understands you and is competent in your issue, and then be willing to do the work. Lots of snake oil providers, but then lots of good ones also. Some who provide services for free or at greatly reduced rates. Now do a spot on clients who expect the therapists to be available 24-7, charge less than a nail manicure, and tell them exactly what they want to hear, while ignoring any evidence based strategies they are taught, and awaiting a miracle in one session.
An alcoholic friend who blames everything past and present on her ex-husband went to therapists. Did they help her with her underlying problem, which is her alcoholism? No. They told her what she wanted to hear and that her drinking was a normal reaction. So she keeps drinking...her teeth are falling apart...she can't stay upright some days, and keeps falling over and being taken to Emergency. The Ambos even used to put AA cards in her pockets. Replace addiction to alcohol with addiction to religion. That's not really helping :P
If you could do all that, what's stopping you from just finding the solution to your own problem? Many people spend more time and money on therapy than they would on getting certified to give therapy, lol
@@Uruz2012 Most people can't see a problem clearly when they're too close to it. An outsider's perspective is useful. A therapist is supposed to be an outsider who's trained to be particularly good at identifying mental health problems and how to address them, and who won't just tell you what you want to hear.
The problem with therapy is the therapists who fall short of that.
@@Uruz2012This precise thought saved my life long ago.
@@kryptonianguest1903self confidence cant be taught. Its something you develop adventure by adventure. "Perspective" means nothing.
The dude lifting weights DEFINITELY needs therapy. He's working out with styrofoam.
Poorly painted styrofoam. Even AI was saying: that don't look right
I'd so love to see If The Stock Market was honest
How it'd probably go:
"Want to live the illusion of financial freedom and not have to work anymore? Invest in the Horton 500, which is an index full of all kinds of Horton-related companies that control the entire nation. In the meantime, we'll have our very financial savvy analysts manipulating the stock up and down while our corporate overlords constantly tell their investors how everything is fine, all the while they cash in their fortunes off the backs of every innocent soul that believed our hogwash that our stock will make them rich"
Honestly most "therapy" is just having a supportive friend you see often. The problem is that's becoming harder and harder to find. The out going people overload themselves with 20 or 30 "friends" and never really experience any of them. While introverts its easier then ever to rarely if ever need to deal with people. The folks in the middle do alright but they are getting to be a smaller and smaller group as people get pulled into one or the other two groups too easily.
As someone who's tried to become one of these counselors, I can say you got a lot of information wrong. You are required to have at least a Master's Degree in psychology (that's 6 years of college) and you have to be a certified counselor or mental health specialist (which requires a master's, extra courses, exams, and 2 more years of interning). They're also required to follow hippa privacy guidelines.
I'm from Vienna. That Viennese psychoanalyst accent was spot on.
Nope, I'm subscribed for meals with "Horton's Frozen Remains" already Factor.
Home cooked meals are best because you know where your hands have been.
After working for multiple fast food places during my teenage years through early 20's I can attest that despite wearing gloves most fast food employees scratch their asses, wipe their face, pick their nose, etc while in the process of assembling the over-priced, low-quality burgers you purchase. When I worked at an Arby's I once saw a co-worker drop a roast beef and cheddar sandwich on the ground (it fell apart) then pick it up, wipe it off with his glove, add some more roast beef on top, an extra squirt of cheese, then put the bun back on, wrapped it, and put it in the bag for the drive-thru customer like nothing happened.
I mentioned this to our boss and he didn't give a shit and actually thanked the other employee for not wasting product.
The fucking sandwich fell apart, landed meat/cheese-first on the ground, and got served.
I don't know if you've ever worked in fast food but the floors get greasy and filthy and eating that could give a person food poisoning.
I also used to work at a KFC and I remember when another employee was clearly sick but showed up and while battering the chicken he was coughing all over it and spraying mucus while doing so. I told him I'd take over and most of the chicken had green phlegm all over it so I started throwing it away and my boss wrote me up for it. He said I was wasting product and when I mentioned why I did so he told me to not worry about because it got fried anyways.
Another time I worked at McDonald's and literally saw another worker re-adjust her pad (she was on her period I assume) with her glove in between assembling food, she didn't wash her hands or change her gloves.
Worked at a Sonic Drive-In as well and seen multiple issues there but one of the worst was when an employee dropped an order of tots and then scooped them all off the ground with his gloves and then put them back in the carton, seen a coworker who clearly had the flu have nasal drainage in a persons milkshake as well.
Yeah... I don't eat fast food anymore lol.
@liwei3043 Wow, that is exactly why I prefer to cook my own meals.
@@Travybear1989This right here. Profits.
This might be my fave Honest Ad, ever since all the scandals in 2018, I have no idea why anyone still promotes this obvious scummy "therapy" group.
I tried one of these apps once and literally the only responses they gave me in my "therapy" session was a definition of anxiety that sounded like they were reading from a script. Like yes, im well aware what anxiety is. Can i have medication for my bipolar disorder now?
My therapist told me shaving would change my life and make me more approachable when I’ve struggled with the problem since before the 5th grade smh.
You can see a licensed psychologist for about 60 an hour on zoom. You can also negotiate with in-person therapists to ask for their uninsured rate. They might have spots available for those in need or if your needs are greater than your insurance cover. Psychiatry can be pretty inaccessible but you can sometimes find GPs who have clinical experience in mental health and who will see you as a GP (and get insurance cover) and work with you on medication if you need it. It isn't ideal, but this isn't an ideal system
T_T yeah that 60$/hr is about what I found out here too, and that is STILL far too expensive for literally anyone on disability or welfare and even for most people making under 40k a year, depending on where they live here (in Canada). That adds up to about 240$/month that most of the people who need the services cannot afford (at least here). At least we CAN get referred to a psychiatrist easily enough, even if it does sometimes take a bit of a wait, and there are group programs that you can get onto waiting lists for after doing lengthy interviews over the phone that you also have to wait on a long waiting list for...
The system is broken and no one is fixing it. :(
where I live every decent psychologist has a patient stop. The only way to get in is if a hospital tells them you need therapy followup to not kys.
A "restaurant quality" meal is nothing to brag about. They're typically the most unhealthy type of food one can consume due to the added fats, salt and abnormally high level of both preservatives and synthetic chemicals used in their processing.
sugar! lots of sugar!
@@Zebra_3 Chemicals! Synthetic chemicals... (a Homer Simpson open-mouthed drool) :P
Most people looking for stuff like that are looking more for taste quality than they are for healthiness. If someone cares that much about healthiness they'll go out of their way to spend more to buy ingredients directly that meet whatever their nutritional goals are.
better help is like 360 a month.
I just looked it up to confirm, and you're absolutely right. WOW. It's not even really an affordable alternative to in-person therapy. $90 per session? $90 per MONTH would be high for someone who has mental health issues and is also struggling to make ends meet.
@@InJeffable Can confirm, looked into this awhile ago for my partner and I. He's on disability, so obviously does not have "play money" of any sort. Cannot for the life of us get funding approved to get in-person going, so looked into BetterHelp to see if it was even at little affordable... It was not, not even with the discounts for lower-incomes that was offered... STILL over 250$ a month! Absolutely fking riddic~!
I don't get overwhelmed at Taco Bell. Does that mean there's something wrong with me?😅
When one orders questionable foodstuffs online because one never bothered to learn how to properly cook foods. Yeah. THAT. "I feel so ALIVE!"
If people lack the basic skill of nourishing themselves it's no wonder the therapy/medication industry is doing so well😂
@@colinrussell2017😂
That’s dark, but you forgot about the tone deaf ads that sudden materialize multiple times in the middle of concentrating on prerecorded online therapy video lessons.
Could have also mentioned that the whole field is still in its infancy. Most people in Therapy stay in it indefinitely as mentioned with the "more therapy" gag but also most people I have known on it have just gotten worse, since not all therapists are the same, most are incompetent.
In the end it is better to have one friend or sibling willing to listen and share their opinion then the most expensive therapist. Ever hear of the series Persona? based on Jungian Psychology it is basically its thesis that interpersonal and emotional issues are solved by talking to friends.
Idk I heard factor was owned by hello fresh
It’s all still a bunch of expensive crap!!!
That makes sense... Anyone who thinks paying more than double monthly grocery costs for a family of 3-4 people, for LESS food than needed for 1-2 people, is either so rich they can't tell they are loosing money here or just really gullible and about to bankrupt themselves. Hello Fresh alone is just awful - lowest plan is 2 people and 3 meals a week for 30 FKING DOLLARS with the discount. 3 meals for 30$? ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!
PEOPLE, PLEASE, JUST GO TO THE GROCERY FKING STORE! T_T Why on earth would anyone pay 30$ (THATS THE 1ST BOX DISCOUNT BTW) for LESS food?! I mean at least if you go to the store you can get enough food to make 3 meals a day for all 7 days of the week...
You started out Honest Ads with an ad that I couldn't tell was an ad and was never sure if you were about to start lampooning them, yet despite this, it still feels like you gave Factor their money's worth of advertisement lmao. Pretty good.
I'm a simple woman. I see Roger I click.
The funniest part about the skit was the fake factor commercial. ;)
Yeah haha *ignores pinned comment* lovely bot of satire there…
It is gravitationally impossible to pull yourself up by your bootstraps.
I thought about that too. Maybe they're supposed to be hanging from their ankles?
Maybe you're supposed to be lying down putting them on with your leg bent up and rock into it?
oh man, I'm going to apply for a job as a therapist and see if I get hired.
The problem is that if you are neurodivergent or have a debilitating mental illness, there's no way to tell what parts of your experiences are normal human things and which are symptoms. Before I tried ADHD meds I thought I was the problem. Before I sought help for the first time I thought being miserable and having nothing to live for was normal. At that point I had literally forgotten what it was like to be happy and content with life, and I thought it was just an impossible thing to achieve. I was told by a psychologist in 2020 that I didn't have ADHD and as a result I nearly dropped out of university and nearly took my own life. Only after I actually got diagnosed and started meds did things start getting better and now that I know that many of the things I experience aren't "normal" I can take action deal with them so that they don't ruin my life. Considering that mental health institutions are consistently failing mentally unhealthy people who are seeking help, I don't think we as a society should be putting the blame on the people who are just trying to get help and fix things. Self-diagnosing thought TikTok isn't a solution, but shaming struggling people is moving even further away from the solution. Mental health care needs to be more accessible, then people won't self-diagnose thought TikTok
Situation is quite bad in country where I am from. Also the fact, that I am dependent on my parents and I am still studying, and I honestly don't think it's an option to tell them that I think I have level 1 ASD and ADHD (I am sure about first one about 90%, my social life and my interests kinda scream about it)
And what to say if I am formally and adult and in my country they DON'T EVEN DIAGNOSE ADULT ASD AT ALL
Of course I am self-diagnosed, pffft
At least I am not self medicating, that's truly dangerous path
Ah, the irony of a channel making fun of ads lying to us promoting an ad that comprises of what tastes and feels like stiff cardboard while claiming it is “restaurant quality”.
*Laughing at the Honest Ads pushing food I can't eat* Nice one.
Even "real therapy" is more limited in its scope than many people realize. Therapy can help people to learn to introspect more, but at the end of the day most of therapy's benefits can be gained from just having a friend to talk to and have some person to bounce your thoughts off of, so you won't completely get stuck in your own head.
When it comes to quite serious mental problems, all kinds of therapy have abysmal success rates. If therapy in these cases was judged by the same standard we judge efficacy of pharmaceuticals they would rank somewhere near taking multivitamins to cure your depression. Sure, in some very specific cases it might work, but in most cases it's basically a placebo. That being said, something similar also applies to many pharmaceuticals used to treat mood disorders.
Demographic that benefits the most from therapy are the people who have some issues, but those issues are not completely debilitating. Like someone with a very busy life and needs some neutral third party to vent their frustrations to.
When it comes to these more serious mental disorders like schizophrenia, severe depression etc you are kinda on your own to figure it out, even if you had access to the best mental care money can buy. If you are unlucky enough to not have a family that cares about you, your prospects for recovery are very grim.
If one of you knows people who have serious mental issues, choosing to stick by their side will have multitudes of greater impact on their chances to make it through than any type of therapy does.
^^ thank you. i haven't heard enough people talking about this.
i've been in therapy for close to 7 yrs. cbt and dbt have been very minimally helpful, and I've been with tons of different providers who use different approaches. talk therapy helps me set small goals and organize my thoughts but hasn't helped address deeper needs. I have bipolar type II, so i'm moderately or severely depressed almost all the time interspersed with short bursts of mild manic symptoms. medication and broad life-style changes have been the most helpful aspects of my treatment. i've tried changing the ways in which I approach mental health counseling, trying to get the most out of it. but if your problems are more associated with pervasive moods and mental states than with emotions and reactions, there's only so much cognitive reframing can accomplish imo. i'm already introspective (sometimes too introspective) so I always get stuck in therapy. wouldn't want to deter anyone from seeing what they can get out of therapy if available but I just wish it wasn't pushed so hard as the first and most critical line of treatment for anyone with a psychological problem.
its unfortunate that the outlook for serious mental health disorders is so bleak but thats the ugly truth of where we're at. I've experienced it firsthand. whenever things start getting really bad for me, the only thing I've been able to turn to is the support of my friends and family. these are real diseases that you cannot save yourself from. and people without support don't get better. lethality of bipolar II is shocking just on its own. we have basically no idea how the human brain works and where a lot of these conditions come from. passionate people are working hard to learn but the incentive to develop new treatments (especially non-pharmaceutical ones) is lower than other types of illness bc there's lingering stigma and misinformation in addition to the fact that ppl with severe psychological conditions are often on the margins of society and can't voice their needs
I hear you, but only going by my personal experience I respectfully disagree.
Therapy was life changing for me, but I also got in when I was a late teen and had zero structure or support from other areas ofmy life. I have no doubt that if I had a wise and stable shoulder to vent to and rely on for good advice or to teach me healthy coping mechanisms, I wouldn't have needed a therapist. But I didn't have those things, so therapy was absolutely critical in my growth and ability to maintain mental stability.
In a perfect world all therapists would be trained experts in human behavior that would be helpful to literally anyone. Unfortunately they're not all created equally, they are human and subsiquantly flawed by their own underlying biases, motives, struggles, and other factors, and on top of that we live in a world that demands profit and capitalizing off of literally everything, which tends to make things messy. It's not a perfect system. In fact it's a pretty messed up system. But I think there's good people in there, knowledgeable people who want to help and can provide a lifeline for the people like me who probably wouldn't be here if not for them.
Supplementing high doses of B12 & D3 did far more for me than therapy ever did, and at a third of the cost.
@@pendafen7405 Vitamin D deficiencies can be really sneaky. Especially if you don't use a lot of dairy products and stay indoors a lot. Mine at one point went to around 12 nmol/L. For reference under 50 is considered a deficiency and below 25 a severe deficiency. I only noticed when my feet started having hairline fractures every other week. Getting vitamin D sorted helped a ton with my mood as well.
That's why I drink; beer & wine are cheaper than therapy!
A really good video, but I wish that they had more to say about the actual in-person therapy. After dunking on social media and BetterHelp, they only really could say “Also in-person therapy sucks, too”.
But it doesn’t! It’s meaningful and impactful. The price issue is very, very real. The stigmatization about how “Therapists don’t really help” is just toxically bad misinformation that discourages people from getting assistance.
I loved the rest of the video, though!
I thought for sure Roger was going to hold the weight while the guy passed him a wad of cash. Then pass back the weight while saying ' see you in a week '
Or put to slightly smaller weights on the bar
If anyone needs an online therapist, I feel very sorry for them! A good friends probably can help you more and not cost a dime - well, maybe lunch!!!
@@sandybruce9092that's the thing, most of the times people suffering those things either don't have friends or don't want to talk about really sensitive themes
Misinformation? I've never met a single therapist not out to make you worse than you started. A lot of people have been burned in a similar fashion. It's an industry full of sharks
@@kkkk-uh1cu what a weird way to say you haven't met any accredited masters level therapists.
FYI make sure when you say penne you really stress those double nn cause girl you made my Italian ears stand up and I almost spit my lunch. LoL.😂
Unsubbing. Taking ads for a company that sells an overpriced frozen meal delivery service whose very working environment pushes its employees to the brink every day? Your videos mock this kind of thing all the time and now claim you are being "honest [about the] ads within [your] ads". It's pathetic that you've sold out to capitalism and try to hold on to integrity. There's still time to delete this video and send that money back to that shameful company, but of course you won't.
Even with all this, it's still a step forward from the days when admitting you went to a therapist made people think you were insane or dangerous. There's plenty of issues with Better Help, and I hope a more worthy competitor comes along with better business practices, but it can be nice to know that someone can help, even in a limited way.
People still think you're "insane or dangerous" for seeking therapy. Just ask anyone who works in a safety-sensitive career such as pilot, firearms instructor, etc. If they find out you're getting mental therapy, you're out of a career.
Cough police officer cough. Those guys see some messed up stuff...and yet we expect them to act perfectly in every situation without help. I had a car accident once. The other driver was high on cocaine. Thankfully no one was hurt. The cop who responded to the accident had just gotten off a call dealing with the murder of a baby at a local hospital. That's just a few hours of one shift in a decades long career. As a security guard myself I've been first on the scene for shootings, armed robberies, kidnappings, car wrecks, and quite a few over doses. Nothing compared to a cop though.
@@paulis7319 True, and MentourNow did a great video on the need to allow pilots (among others) the ability to seek mental health help without permanently grounding them. A difficult subject, but one that I maintain we have achieved some small progress on.
@@michaelharris8598 Reason 19485863 I would never date or befriend a cop or a soldier. Sounds harsh and judgemental, but it's just a personal safety boundary. They've all seen too much shit, and that deeply traumatises even the minority of decent non-powertripping non-violent non-bullying ones.
I used to work for one of those prepared meal companies a few years ago. I only stayed for a couple of weeks and said fuck this shit!
People dropped food on the floor and put it in the meal kits. People wiped snot on their noses and kept on packing food.
I always thought they were bs for lazy people. Just get off your lazy asses and go to the store and buy your food!
As far as the online therapy... I never thought it was any good or barely legal. Heck, many of the mouth breathers with degrees are barely legit. They make you sometimes even feel worse than before you started seeing them. You're better off getting a book.
What's truly sad, is how thoroughly accurate this is.
If only Britt could be my therapist all would be perfect. You're the best Britt!
We use to have structures built into communities(religions, warrior/men's/women's societies, etc) where a lot of pain and stress could be expressed in a more or less "healthy" way of course a lot of these were extremely problematic and could create unhealthy pressure of their own but in most societies they found a way to have escape valves for most people, as we became more concerned with profits and expansion we got rid of a lot of these because they got in the way or we streamlined them so they only really benefited the elite who sought to control the population. Counterculture was often an attempt to recreate these societies but most failed due to good old human greed and desire for control. We can hope people can rediscover a sense of community again so that people can get back a place to help them with their mental health.
Exactly. Is isolation that makes us mentally sick. We don't need all that bs, and I am psychologist but I have seen how really most of the people have no talent, and when you see that more community oriented places have better quality of life is when you realize that this is the way.
We fail at the basics. Family is the most basic community, and almost always is non functional (people will say functional is mediocre)
Screw you for the factor ad. And Thank you for placing it in such a way it is easy to skip/ignore.
I'd get help from Roger
More access to....
If you have money and/or insurance I guess.
Some of us are basically metaphorically taping ourselves back together every day still.
Lexipro + cats = Murican Sanity
I've seen a real therapist, and I feel so called out by this
Lol❤❤😸
I was passed therapist to therapist every day for a whole month, then denied a refund. Better help, you are frauds.
0:48 All that single use plastic waste. No thanks.